Improving Student Outcomes Through Universal Design for Learning: A Case Study of Color Vision Deficiency in Learning Visual Design (S/O: 14513) by Sarif, Siti Mahfuzah, Muda, Suhaini, Mohamed, Nur Fadziana Faisal

“…Theory-driven codes were created to assist in the coding of the interview data and students' reflective journals. The findings show that students with CVD did appreciate the presence of assistive tools to help with colour selection (i.e., Representation), have a high interest in doing visual design tasks (i.e., Engagement), and affirmative towards the challenges they faced (i.e., Action and Expression) in Visual Design course due to the deficiency…”
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Development of Oil Plam Fiber Waste Inventory System for Optimal Electricity Grid Supply: Biomass Briquette by Zakaria, Izatul Husna, Bakri, Adnan, Ibrahim, Jafni Azhan, Othman, Abdul Aziz

“…This study represent two findings that are “Bio-briquette Usage in Value Chain of Oil Palm Fibre Waste - Electricity Grid Supply” and “Closed Loop Supply Chains (CLCS) of Oil Palm Fibre Waste for Electricity Production by Producing Bio Methane Fuel”…”
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Preliminary Studies on the Development of Sustainable Lightweight Foamed Concrete Reinforced with Natural Fibres for Mechanical Properties Enhancement by Anak Pirah, Jeffery, Othuman Mydin, Md Azree, Mohd Nawi, Mohd Nasrun, Omar, Roshartini

“…Although foamed concrete was originally developed for void filling and insulation, today's society is gradually shifting its focus to structural qualities. The findings of an experimental investigation that was conducted to determine the impact of various densities and additives on the mechanical properties of foamed concrete are presented in this paper. …”
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Mechanical Properties of Sustainable Mesocarp Fibre Reinforced Lightweight Foamed Concrete by Anak Pirah, Jeffery, Othuman Mydin, Md Azree, Mohd Nawi, Mohd Nasrun

“…Because a coarser surface allows mesocarp fibre and matrix interlocking in the cured cement matrix, the surface roughness of the mesocarp has been shown to be favourable for fibre-to-matrix interfacial bonding. According to the findings of this investigation, for a density of 700 kg/m3, 0.4% volume fraction was the optimum quantity of foamed concrete applied to obtain the ideal mechanical properties while 0.6% of mesocarp was optimal for 1400 kg/m3…”
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Participatory monitoring in farmer field school program through Whatsapp among indigenous farmers in rural Sarawak, Malaysia by Agnese, Federica, Othman, Zakirah, Mitin, Anni, Wan Yahaya, Wan Ahmad Jaafar

“…To effectively promote the use of digital platforms, agricultural policies must promote inclusiveness and prioritize equitable access to ICT devices and facilities. Current findings show that social media can enhance active multi-stakeholder participation but should be complemented with non-ICT means of communication for rural farming communities…”
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Assessing the implementation level of business process reengineering factors in Malaysian Islamic banks by Hasnan, Norlena, Ringim, Kabiru Jinjiri, Razalli, Mohd Rizal

“…Frequencies and descriptive analysis was conducted to ascertain the implementation level of BPR factors in Islamic bank. The findings revealed that BPR factors such as Change Management, Strategy alignment, Management Commitment, Customer Focus, Information Technology (IT) Investment, Process redesign, Adequate Financial Resources, Less Bureaucratic Structure have a moderate means level. …”
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Effect of IT Capability and Intangible IT Resources on Sustainable Competitive Advantage: Exploring Moderating and Mediating Effect of IT Flexibility and Core Competency by Lahcene, Makhloufi, Yaacob, Noorulsadiqin Azbiya, Laghouag, Abderrazak Ahmed, Ali Sahli, Alhussain, Belaid, Fateh

“…The study applied a quantitative and cross-sectional approach to collect data from 164 Malaysian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) targeting managers from the middle-to-upper level. The findings infer new insights regarding IT integration’s critical role within core competency activities to achieve SCA. …”
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Cogency of Suggestion System in Managing Innovation: Reducing Progressive Die Change Over Time in Auto Stamping Operations by Baluch, Nazim Hussain, Mohtar, Shahimi, Nordin, Norani

“…To cope with the financial volatilities, Beta industries, a metal stamping division of Magana International, turned to ‘process innovation’ for improving effectiveness of their stamping operations; process innovation pertains to finding better or more efficient ways of producing existing products, or delivering existing services. …”
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Motorized Hose Rolling Tool for Firefighter: Design and Fabrication Process by Mahmood, Salwa, Mustapha, Mohammad Luqman Hakim, El Bakri, Helmy Mustafa, Abdul Rahman, Ismail, Badulrudin, Mohd Fahmi

“…Based on the experiment that had been conducted, the conventional hose rolling methods recorded an average LBP risk probabilities of 58.22%, while the motorized hose rolling tool method significantly reduced these risks to 17.44%, representing a 40.78% reduction of LBP risks. These findings highlight the effectiveness of motorized hose rolling tool and its potential as a safer alternative to existing methods, offering vital insights for improving occupational health and safety in hose rolling operation. …”
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Machine Learning Approaches for the Prediction of Postoperative Major Complications in Patients Undergoing Surgery for Bowel Obstruction by Mazzotta, Alessandro D., Burti, Elisa, Causio, Francesco Andrea, Orlandi, Alex, Martinelli, Silvia, Longaroni, Mattia, Pinciroli, Tiziana, Debs, Tarek, Costa, Gianluca, Miccini, Michelangelo, Aurello, Paolo, Petrucciani, Niccolò

“…Mazzotta 1,2ORCID,Elisa Burti 3,Francesco Andrea Causio 4,*ORCID,Alex Orlandi 5,Silvia Martinelli 4,Mattia Longaroni 6,Tiziana Pinciroli 7,Tarek Debs 8,Gianluca Costa 9ORCID,Michelangelo Miccini 10ORCID,Paolo Aurello 3 andNiccolò Petrucciani 3 1 Department of Surgery, Vannini General Hospital, Oncological and General Surgery, 00177 Rome, Italy 2 The BioRobotics Institute, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, 56127 Pisa, Italy 3 Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences and Translational Medicine, Division of General and Hepatobiliary Surgery, St. …”
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The iHealth-T2D study, prevention of type 2 diabetes amongst South Asians with central obesity and prediabetes: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial by Kasturiratne, Anuradhani, Khawaja, Khadija I., Ahmad, Sajjad, Siddiqui, Samreen, Shahzad, Khurram, Athauda, Lathika K., Jayawardena, Ranil, Mahmood, Sara, Muilwijk, Mirthe, Batool, Tayyaba, Burney, Saira, Glover, Matthew, Palaniswamy, Saranya, Bamunuarachchi, Vodathi, Panda, Manju, Madawanarachchi, Suren, Rai, Baldeesh, Sattar, Iqra, Silva, Wnurinham, Waghdhare, Swati, Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta, Rannan-Eliya, Ravindra P., Gage, Heather M., van Valkengoed, Irene G. M., Valabhji, Jonathan, Frost, Gary S., Loh, Marie, Wickremasinghe, Ananda R., Kooner, Jaspal S., Katulanda, Prasad, Jha, Sujeet, Chambers, John C.

“…Endpoints: The primary endpoint is new-onset T2D at 3 years, defined as (i) HbA1c ≥ 6.5% or (ii) physician diagnosis and on treatment for T2D. …”
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Disaster risk modeling and assessment towards enhanced infrastructure resilience under extreme events by Wang, Ying

“…The connectivity provided by transportation network heavily affects yet not guarantee its ability in satisfying travel demand. In Chapter 5, a new system performance metric based on a localized measure derived from ridership data is developed for resilience modeling of networked infrastructure systems, i.e., urban rail transit network. …”
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Biomimetic whisker transducer for vibrissal tactile sensing by Ju, Feng

“…Its measurement error is 1.4% for viscosity and 0.5% for density (water 25 °C). And a wide measurement range of viscosity was achieved which is at least from 8.93×10-4 to 4.15×10-2 N•s/m2. …”
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Investigation of charge collection pathways in mesoscopic solar cells by Chua, Julianto

“…It was found out that as the grid spacing increased beyond 10 μm (6% PCE, compared to conventional FTO based standard reference cell 8.5%), the efficiency dropped gradually. Electron diffusion length in this novel type of mesoscopic solar cell was estimated by benchmarking the procedure on the well-studied liquid and solid state DSC and yielded a value between 3-5 μm.…”
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Micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS) enabled digital pen by Tan, Joel Qi Zhi

“…The MEMS used in this project is STEVAL-MKI119V1 evaluation board from ST Microelectronics, which comprises of an accelerometer, LSM303DLHC, and a gyroscope, L3GD20. …”
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Injectable and biomimetic poly (ethylene glycol) hydrogel systems for in situ therapeutic cell delivery by Cao, Ye

“…Results from NHDFs studies showed that proliferation rate of NHDFs in GEP45 (13.5%) and GEP30 (11.4%) were higher than that of control (7.3%) on day 9. …”
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Comparison of transport methodologies on near-field pollutant dispersion in urban environments using CFD by Tee, Clarence Wei Tat

“…Through parametric studies, the best accuracy is attained when the Sc_t value of 0.5 is used in the street canyon case and Sc_t value of 1.5 for MUST. …”
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Analyzing instantaneous frequency characteristics of various features in water pipelines via the hilbert transform method by Nor Azinee, Said, Mohd Fairusham, Ghazali, Mohd Fadhlan, Mohd Yusof, Muhammad Aminuddin, Pi Remli, Muhammad Hanafi, Yusop

“…In order to verify the efficacy of the EMD-HT presented in this paper, laboratory experimental tests were done on pipeline systems exhibiting various features, such as leakage, elbow, and junction. The finding shows that the proposed methodology can identify distinct characteristics of various pipe features in water pipelines.…”
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Empowering natural product science with AI: leveraging multimodal data and knowledge graphs by Meijer, David, Beniddir, Mehdi A, Coley, Connor W, Mejri, Yassine M, Öztürk, Meltem, van der Hooft, Justin JJ, Medema, Marnix H, Skiredj, Adam

“…Artificial intelligence (AI) is accelerating how we conduct science, from folding proteins with AlphaFold and summarizing literature findings with large language models, to annotating genomes and prioritizing newly generated molecules for screening using specialized software. …”
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Molybdenum disulfide (MoS_2) as a broadband saturable absorber for ultra-fast photonics by Zhang, H, Lu, S B, Zheng, J, Du, J, Wen, S C, Tang, D Y, Loh, K P

“…Our laser experiment shows that few-layer MoS2-based mode locker allows for the generation of stable mode-locked laser pulse, centered at 1054.3 nm, with a 3-dB spectral bandwidth of 2.7 nm and a pulse duration of 800 ps. Our finding suggests that few-layered MoS2 nanoplatelets can be useful nonlinear optical material for laser photonics devices, such as passive laser mode locker, Q-switcher, optical limiter, optical switcher and so on.…”
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